NEW DELHI: Shares of Orient Refractories (up 12.65 per cent), Ugar Sugar Works (up 11.50 per cent) and Uttam Sugar Mills (up 11.09 per cent) surged over 10 per cent, defying weak market sentiment on Friday.

Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty finished Friday's trade nearly 1 per cent down on across the board selling, with FMCG as an exception.

The BSE Sensex lost 301 points, or 0.86 per cent, to settle at 34,848, with only 7 stocks in the green and 24 in the red.

The Nifty index suffered a fall of 86 points, or 0.81 per cent, finishing at 10,596. Among the 50 stocks in the index, 14 settled in the green and 36 in the red.

Bajaj Finance, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Finserv, Hindustan Unilever, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IndusInd Bank and ITC were the top gainers in the Nifty pack of stocks.

On the contrary, Cipla, Wipro, Indiabulls Housing Finance, Sun Pharma, Tata Motors and Tata Steel settled as the top losers in the Nifty index.

Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Britannia Industries, Colgate Palmolive and Dabur India appeared among the 15 stocks that hit 52-week highs on NSE on Friday.